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Weekend Tips: What to Do This Weekend in Berlin
October 23 to 25, 2026: Events, festivals, exhibitions and more things to do for your perfect weekend in Berlin. more
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October 23 to 25, 2026: Events, festivals, exhibitions and more things to do for your perfect weekend in Berlin. more
Since 2006 the interactive permanent exhibition has been inviting its visitors to discover everyday life of the DDR and to get to know the history of the former socialist state. moreabout: Permanent exhibition at DDR Museum
Home movies offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in the GDR—into family celebrations, vacations, and rituals beyond the official imagery. Historian Sebastian Thalheim has been conducting academic research on family and home movies for many years and,... moreabout: Everyday Life on 8mm Film
In 2024, communication designer Jan-Erik Nord drove a Trabant along Route 66 as part of a charity campaign for a seriously ill child. He had been dreaming of taking a road trip across the U.S. for years. Now, that dream had become a reality in an East... moreabout: Across the U.S. in a Trabi
When Wolf Biermann was stripped of his citizenship following his concert in Cologne on November 13, 1976, it sparked a wave of protest both at home and abroad. For many, his expatriation became an occasion to fundamentally question the unjust regime of... moreabout: “You’re putting out the fire with gasoline”
East German propaganda spoke in flowery terms of a “bridge of friendship to Lenin’s homeland” when the GDR’s largest transportation project was inaugurated on October 2, 1986. East Berlin and Moscow had created one of the most important strategic links... moreabout: Secret shipments across the Baltic Sea
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